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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4017, 12 November 1881, Page 2

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San Fkan cisco, October 22. The British ship Fernglcn', Captain Bubb, from Wellington, went ashore on Clakop Spit, outside Columbia river, Oregon, on Sunday, the 16th, and became a total wreck. The captain and crew were taken off and brought to Victoria. Professor King, the aeronaut, who recently made an ascent from Chicago, turned up at Duppewa Falls, Wisconsin.- - The British ship Friedeberg, while unloading railroad material at Oakland wharf, opposite San Francisco, sank at. her moorings by the steel rails. slipping . from the slings and knocking, a hole through the bottom of the vessel.. She was owned by Tomlinson and Hodgett, of Liverpool. , . , The Centennial celebration of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at York town, commenced on the 19th, and the military was present from all parts of the Union, and also military delegations from France and Germany. The display was very; imposing. A monument is to be erected to mark the event, and the cornerstone has been laid with full Masonic ceremonies. The members of <he English Cricket team, who leave by the Australia 'today, played a game previous to the steamer ; sailing. Eafaelle Monte, the celebrated Italian sculptor is dead.

London. . An organisation against the- tobaoco - monopoly by the German Government has been formed in Berlin. Captain Adams, of the whaler Arctic, visited the scene of the loss of the Erebus, and Terror. In the Fury, and. Hecla Straits, the Esquimaux gave him. particulars which appear to clear up the fate of the Franklin Expedition. After the loss of the ships, seventeen men started overland, hoping to reach Hudson's Bay, but only three survived the journey to the house of the barrator's father. One of these, supposed to be /Lieutenant Crozier, died first, and the death of the others followed;-, , Pilgrims to Borne are being assaulted by the mobs* who cry " Death. to the Pope" and "down with the Vatican."

Terrible riots occurred in Limerick and Dublin! In the latter city the Irish. Times and Mail newspaper offices were mobbed. The Keely motor has again been tested, and again pronounced a failure. The , press charges the would-be inventor with deception. A few .Russian Jews, the advauce guard of the mighty host that has been driten from the Czar's domain, have-armed in Chicago, and look like well-to-do trades- * people. It is whispered concerning the celebration at Yorktown, that the .French delegation have shown marked symptoms of' jealousy because of the attentions paid the Germans. They claim that iv the ' fight oue hundred years ago France was' represented as a nation, while Baron Ton Steuben was present only as a soldier of fortune. . ' . : The Great Eastern was offered by auction in London on the 19th, and bought in for £30,000. _' Preparations are making at Moscow for,. the coronation of Alexander the 111. The Kussian Imperial Palace at Gatschina and the approaches are now illumi* ' nated by electricity Co guard against the .Nihilists. The steamer Thingoalla, from Copen^ hagen on the 7th for New York, with 500 immigrants, is missing. The press generally considers the manifesto ot the Irish Land League as a direct incentive to civil war. The Times, however, says there is a hollowneas and insincerity in its ring that amounts to selfconfessed defeat. '""; Scorville, Gnitean's lawyer, hna made an appeal to the people of the United States for his client, in the interest of patriotism, justice, humanity, and mercy. He believes the assassin to have been insane, but is much discouraged that he" cannot secure first-class legal talent, and witnesses everywhere refuse to testify. The British ship Geraldine Paget, from Hongkong to Portland, Oregon, is reported. October 21.

George Roberts, an Englishman, was robbed of 1,000 dollars iv a sleepiug car, between Indianapolis and Litehfield.' Archibald Forbes writes to tho New York Tribune concerning the York town celebration, that President Arthur gave the key note of the feeling towards England, at the very commencement by a singularly graceful and tasteful observance, with which be inaugurated the proceedings. The British flag was saluted at the close of the ceremony. The military review was a success, 9,500 militiaman being in Hoe. Om a million dollars worth of Confab.

rate bonds were bought and sold in Richmond on the 20th, and business continues brisk. i ' Trickett challenges Hanlan to row him a three mile race for 1,000 dollars a-side and the championship of the world. Archbishop Croke has spoken out in* a letter protesting against the manifesto of the Land League. The League has been proclaimed as illegal and criminal, and its meeting will be dispersed by the police. When the news of this proclamation readied the league's office, a hurried council was held and the books a»d papers were destroyed, the lights extinguished, the doors locked. and the executive and officials decamped fearing arrest, leaving only a stock of notepaper and envelopes. Gladstone's residence at Hawarden castle is elaborately protected. The pre mier has been ill, but is now recovering. Two editors of New Jersey, for concerted libel, were sentenced to ten months imprisonment with hard labor, and with a 200 dollars fine. The United Kingdom has been visited by a terrible hurricane, and dispatches of the 16th mention it as one of tbo most disastrous for years. There was much damage done to the shipping in the Mersey, many boats aground, and the Thames steamboat traffic suspended. The London Parks were strewn with fallen timber, and ir^he South Park 400 trees were blown down. The gale damaged property all over the country, unroofing and wrecking hundreds of bouses in Ireland and Scotland, and killing magy people. 45 fishermen were reported lost at Barnmouth and Eyemouth, Scotland, and 50 from Berwick- ] shire at sea during.the time are given up as lost. 70 Dunbar fishermen are reported drowned, also three pilots in the Tyne, and at Stockton on Tees five persons were killed by the falling of a loof. The steamer Cypridan from Liverpool to Genoa was wrecked on the Welsh coast, and 22 lives lost. 85 vessels in all are lost. The, approximate value of the property destroyed is £8,000.000. The arrest of Mr Parnell in Dublin caused great excitement. The warrant was signed by Mr Secretary Forster, and charged the agitator with inciting the people, and the intimidation of others from paying their just rents, and with intimidating tenants from taking the benefit of the Land Act. The Cabinet was unanimous on the subject of the arrest. Mr Gladstone was informed of it at Guildhall, and bis announcement of the fact was received with uproarious cheering, the whole of the large assemblage of guests rising and waving their hats and handkerchiefs. - Mormon missionaries are swarming Europe.